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Current information on the situation on the front line: September 12 (updated)
2023-09-13
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/12/2023 to 00:00 09/13/2023

Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 98 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.

Information has been received about the death of a civilian, a man, in the Kievsky district of Donetsk.

Four civilians were injured of varying severity in the Kiev region of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and Kremenchik.

Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kiev, Kirov and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.

Districts of six settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central City districts), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Leninsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromikhailovka, Kermenchik.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 68 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

At Gorlivske there were 23 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.

At Yasinovatsky there were six artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

At Velikonovoselkovskoe one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.

A total of 284 units of various ammunition were fired.

In the previous day, 108 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.

22:00 Ongoing intense fighting in the direction of Kleshcheevka. The Russian Armed Forces have deployed reserves and are seeking to counterattack in Kleshcheevka; at the moment, most of the village is in the gray zone. Near Andreevka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to attack the positions of the Russian Armed Forces near the railway from the flanks, so far without success. Powerful artillery work is underway. The situation is steadily tense.

21:45 Wagner’s banner flies: Ukrainian Armed Forces militants showed shots from the center of Kleshcheevka

In fact, the enemy has been entering the center of the village for about a month and a half now; several times during counterattacks, ours picked out Nazis from there.

Now most of the settlement is in the gray zone, Russian troops hold the northeastern part

21:30 Special forces Akhmat knocks out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from positions near Kreminnaya -video.

21:15 TANK ACTION from the first person!

Russian tank crews continue to advance in Mar'inka, simultaneously attacking the Ukrainian Armed Forces -video!

20:50 Situation in the counteroffensive: Ukrainian Armed Forces militants are blown up by Russian mines one after another -video.

20:15 In the Kupyansky direction, Russian aerospace forces inflicted a series of strikes against Ukrainian terrorists:

The strikes were carried out on areas where personnel, military equipment and weapons were concentrated in the 14th Brigade and territorial defense units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Attack and bomber aircraft, as well as Ka-52 and Mi-28 helicopters, were involved in the strikes.

Enemy positions in the vicinity of the settlements of Sin'kovka, Berestovoe and Ivanovka were hit.

Enemy losses are estimated at two platoons of personnel; a T-72 tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was also destroyed.

19:30 Opytnoye under the control of the RF Armed Forces, are coming fierce battles.

18:55 Arrivals of FPV drones at Ukrainian positions -video.

18:30 Opytnoye under our control: units of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces confidently repulse attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and hold their positions

Ukrainian units constantly make attempts to break through the defenses, but as a result of unsuccessful assaults they only suffer huge losses.

Reconnaissance and UAV operators promptly detect the movement of militants, after which artillery strikes at enemy assault groups.

“In principle, they [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] have no chance,” the Russian fighter is sure.

18:00 More military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave up, captured during an unsuccessful offensive:

In the area of the settlement of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering significant losses in manpower and military equipment, including Western-made ones.

The Kiev regime, in its attempts to carry out further assaults on the Orekhovsky tactical direction, has already lost hundreds of military personnel and dozens of pieces of equipment, but the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not stop sending its soldiers to certain death.

Most of the Ukrainian military personnel who surrender do not even enter into battle. When they see Russian fighters, they lay down their weapons and come out with their hands raised.

During the interrogation, the prisoners described the atmosphere in their units, why they decided to surrender, and how Russian servicemen treated them.

17:30 Well, now the exclusives of the work of our verticals. Ka-52 strength -video.

16:55 New prisoners arrived in the Artemovsk direction -video.

16:25 Kleshcheevka:

Our guys have brought up reserves to the Kleshcheevka area and are taking measures to restore control over the lost positions.

16:05 RF Ministry of Defense: September 12 this year At about 13.30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.

Duty air defense systems destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.

15:00 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:

In the South Donetsk direction, advanced units of the Vostok group of forces, with artillery support, thwarted attempts by two groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cross the Shaitanka River north of Novomayorsky. In the same area, aerial reconnaissance discovered areas where manpower had accumulated. The enemy was destroyed by artillery fire.

An attack by an enemy infantry group north of Priyutnoye was repelled.

An attempt to transfer Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry in the Prechistovka area was stopped. The armored fighting vehicle and manpower were destroyed.

Pick-up trucks with nationalists in the Urozhaynoye and Vodyanoye areas, as well as an ammunition depot in the Elizavetovka area were also destroyed.

The temporary deployment points of the 37th and 38th Naval Infantry Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novodonetsky, Urozhainy, the Oktyabr State Farm, Zolotaya Niva and the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka were hit.

During the counterbattery fight, three towed 152mm Msta-B howitzers were destroyed in Novoukrainka, Temirovka and Novoselka, as well as mortar crews in the Ravnopol areas, north of Nikolskoye and north-west of Novodonetsk.

Aircraft hit places where Ukrainian Armed Forces were gathering manpower and equipment in the areas of Zolotaya Niva, Novomayorskoye, Staromayorskoye, Novoukrainka and Urozhaynoye.

The crew of the Osa air defense missile system shot down two reconnaissance UAVs "Valkyrie" and "Leleka".

Military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism when performing combat missions.

The senior gunner of the motorized rifle brigade of the group, Private Evgeniy Shniperov, as part of the unit, carried out tasks to engage firepower in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one of the sectors of the South Donetsk direction.

During one of the battles, Private Shniperov, despite the fire from enemy artillery, managed to eliminate eight Ukrainian militants.

In addition, Evgeny Shniperov successfully evacuated several wounded colleagues from the line of combat contact.

14:35 Airborne attack aircraft captured stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and captured Ukrainian military personnel in the Artemovsk direction

The progress of the battle was controlled by the commanders of the assault squads using unmanned aircraft

The UAV crew of the Airborne Forces discovered a platoon stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The artillery worked according to the transmitted coordinates, after which the assault detachments of the “winged infantry” entered the battle.

Ukrainian soldiers fired back for a long time, trying to hold back the onslaught of airborne units, but after the first grenade flew into their trench, they decided to surrender.

14:10 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:

Operational-tactical aviation of the “Southern” group of forces attacked the accumulation of weapons and military equipment of the 114th territorial defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, command and observation posts of the 77th and 93rd Airmobile Brigades in the areas of the settlement of Novy.

The assault and army aviation of the group of forces destroyed an ammunition depot of the 28th Motorized Infantry Brigade in Dyleyevka, and struck enemy personnel and armored vehicles in Sporny, Belogorovka, Kleshcheevka, Bogdanovka, Andreevka, Razdolovka, Novgorodsky and Avdievka.

The group’s artillery destroyed the temporary deployment point of a unit of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade in Paraskovievka, five pickup trucks, two dugouts, and the position of an AGS grenade launcher crew in Vesely, Verkhnekamensky, Belogorovka, Perovmaisky.

During the counter-battery fight, the enemy lost eight vehicles, 122mm D-30 and 152mm Msta-B howitzers, an AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radar station, five 120mm mortars, a warehouse with enemy ammunition in Novgorodsky, Georgievka, Ilyinka, Perezdny, Novokalinovo, Artyomovo, Krasnogorovka.

Crews of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems inflicted fire on enemy manpower concentrations in Kleshcheevka and Maloliinovka, and FPV drones destroyed the enemy dugout in Vasyukovka.

13:30 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:

In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the Center group of forces, in cooperation with artillery, assault and army aviation, repelled and thwarted six attacks by assault groups of the 63rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the Torsky ledge, as well as the 67th Mechanized Brigade and the 12th Special Purpose Brigade "Azov" in the Serebryansky forestry area.

Enemy losses in this direction amounted to about 40 militants. An armored combat vehicle and a Pickup vehicle were destroyed. Two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.

Bomber aircraft of the Russian group carried out four strikes on two enemy command and observation posts and two temporary deployment points in the areas of the settlements of Kirovsk and Serebryanka.

12:45 Exactly at target:

The UAV crew identified a camouflaged infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Ukrainian militants' infantry fighting vehicles were hit by Lancet loitering ammunition. As a result of the strike, the enemy combat vehicle was destroyed.

12:00 Statement of Head of the press center of the “West” group:

During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, motorized rifles of the 1st Tank Army, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade in the direction of Berestovoye.

The crews of attack helicopters Ka-52, Mi-28 and attack aircraft of the West group of forces carried out twenty-four missile and bomb attacks on the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and territorial defense units in the area of the settlements of Sin'kovka, Berestovoe and Ivanovka.

During the counterbattery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed a 122mm 2S1 “Gvozdika” self-propelled artillery mount and an ammunition supply point in the area of the settlements Peschanoye and Sin'kovka.

An unmanned aerial vehicle of the Valkyrie type was destroyed by air defense systems in the area of the settlement of Ploshchanka.

The total enemy losses amounted to two platoons of manpower and one T-72 tank.

11:25 Deputy Head of the DPR for the Russian Guard and commander of the Vostok battalion Alexander Khodakovsky:

In the area where the enemy surrendered today, there was first a clash, which resulted in the surrender. But for some reason some Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters remained in the forest belt in the gray zone. Most likely due to injury.

After some time, our observers saw four thugs, without hiding at all, coming from the enemy’s side and finishing off their own. Just this morning we received a newsletter that the enemy began to actively use psychotropic drugs to suppress the instinct of self-preservation - perhaps we observed them in action. What we saw again brings us back to the numerous conversations that the enemy is using barrier detachments from the most “Svidomo” to keep all those forcibly mobilized in obedience.

11:00 Russian fighter “Shepherd” told How the British “Challenger 2” was destroyed:

At the beginning of September - the crew of the Kornet ATGM of the 108th Airborne Regiment of the 7th Guards Air Assault Division. The DShD destroyed the British Challenger 2 tank with one shot.

10:25 Analysis of situations at the front from enemies: the enemy does not abandon attempts to counteroffensive

The main conclusions of the American Institute for the Study of War:

Russian troops launched an offensive on the Kupyansk-Svatovo-Kremennaya line, in the Bakhmut area, on the Avdievka-Donetsk line, in the west of Donetsk and the eastern border of the Zaporozhye region, as well as in the west of the Zaporozhye region and advanced in certain areas.

Ukrainian troops carried out unsuccessful attacks in the Kremennaya area. Russian troops repelled attacks by three Ukrainian assault groups west of Dibrova (five kms southwest of Kremennaya).

Ukrainian troops unsuccessfully attacked northwest of Novomayorsky, in the area of Novodonetsk (12 kms southeast of Velikaya Novoselka) and north of Priyutnoye (16 kms southwest of Velikaya Novoselka).

10:00 Situation on the fronts over the past 24 hours:

Zaporozhye direction

It is calmer in the Orekhovsky sector - large losses due to attacks in Rabotino and Verbovoy reduced the activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ours successfully counterattacked from Novofedorovka and recaptured several forest plantations.

On the Vremyevsky ledge, Ukrainiuans are unsuccessfully killing themselves against our positions at the Urozhaynoye-Staromayorskoye line.

Attempts to break through in the area of Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky did not bring any results to the Ukrainian.

Svatovo-Kremennoe direction

Ours continue to advance towards Kupyansk, establishing control in the area of Sin'kovka and Petropavlovka.

Artyomovskoe direction

Russian fighters are advancing in the area of Orekhovo-Vasil'ievka and Berkhovka.

South of Artyomovsk there are fierce battles in the southern part of Kleshcheevka.

It is reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are entering Andreevka, but our guys are holding positions in the village.

Donetsk direction

In the Opytny area there were oncoming battles: ours successfully counterattacked and drove back the militants.

In Mar'inka, our people are storming the western outskirts.

09:10 Summary on the morning of September 12, 2023

Fighting continues on the Zaporozhye front near Rabotino. Over the past 24 hours, three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles with personnel were hit on the approach to a populated area. Near the village Verbovoe, another enemy assault group in armored vehicles is covered by fire from our MLRS and artillery. The enemy did not break into the settlement.

To the east of the Vremevsky direction, near Novomayorsky and Novodonetsky, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing infantry into battle under the fire of our artillery, while simultaneously building up forces in the rear of the sector.

In the Kherson direction, fighting continues on the islands. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hold a small piece of land near the Antonovsky Bridge at the cost of constant losses, unable to expand the zone of control. Under mortar and artillery fire from the Russian Armed Forces, arriving small landing groups suffer constant losses.

In the Avdeevsky direction, the enemy has been active for several days near Opytny, trying to gain a foothold on the outskirts of the village. He deployed tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, suffered serious losses, and heavy fighting continues.

In the forests near Kremennaya, the Russian Armed Forces covered enemy positions with incendiary rounds from MLRS. Six attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled on the Torsky ledge and in Serebryansky forestry.

In Rylsk, Kursk region, UAVs attacked an administrative building twice at night; there were no casualties. In the Belgorod region, the Krasnoyaruzhsky district was under fire, and an enemy drone was shot down in the Valuysky urban district. In the Zaporozhye region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit Energodar with four drones: a residential building and a passport office. The enemy fired 338 rounds at the civilian population of the DPR, four civilians were wounded.

09:08 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:

-- n.p. Krynki nine rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoe 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery eight rounds;
-- n.p. Saga six rounds;
-- n.p. Korsunka seven rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha eight rounds;

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Kazachi Lagery, Dnepryany, Sagi, Podstepnoe firing a total of 39 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.

08:06 We identify, report, destroy -video

Russian intelligence officers can boast not only of their vigilance, observation and intelligence, but also of modern technical means. With their help, it is possible to find any skillfully disguised target.

A serviceman with the call sign “Prince” spoke about how to properly use a video surveillance camera in combat conditions.

08:04 Frontline summary for the morning of 09/12/2023

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, reached Novoprokopovka and attacked in a forest plantation one and a half kilometers north of the village. The Russian Armed Forces shelled Ukrainian positions in the settlements of Kamenskoye, Pyatikhatki, Novodanilovka, Rabotino, Omelnik, Malaya Tokmachka, Gulyaypole and Ol'govskoye. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Russians in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Ilchenkovo, Verbovoy and Novopokrovka.In the Ugledarsky sector, Russian troops, supported by aviation, counterattacked at Staromayorsky. After the artillery shelling, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued their attack on Novodonetskoye and Novomayorskoye. The Russian Armed Forces are holding their positions. Russian artillery worked against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Levadny and Zolotaya Niva. Ukrainian - according to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Priyutny, Zavetny Zhelanie, Staromlynovka and Kermenchik.

On the Donetsk front, Russian units, supported by artillery, tried to advance in Marinka. No success. But similar actions on the part of Opytny and Spartak allowed them to regain a number of positions lost the day before. At Novokalinov, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled the attack, despite the heavy artillery fire of the Russian Armed Forces. Ukrainian units are under attack in Novomikhailovka, Antonovka, Pobeda, the city of Krasnohorivka, Pervomaisky, Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka), New York and Severny (a settlement northwest of Gorlovka). Russian - in Aleksandrovka, Donetsk, Opytny, Makeevka, Yasinovataya and Gorlovka.

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops counterattacked at Kurdyumovka, in Kleshcheevka and in the Orekhovo-Vasilievka area. The Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian units in Ivanovo, Chasovy Yar, Khromov, Razdolovka, Vesyol (a settlement northeast of Soledar), Sporny and Verkhnekamensky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at Russian troops in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Kleshcheevka, Bakhmut and Soledar

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